TAMPA — An inadvertent release of documents in the Walker Middle School rape case prompted a Hillsborough County judge late Thursday to order media outlets not to publish, post or broadcast any reference to the materials.

Hillsborough Circuit Judge Emmett Battles also ordered the immediate removal of any news stories published on the Internet that center on the documents.

"To the extent that such statements or the contents of such statements have been posted on the Internet or in other media, all references to the alleged statements of the defendants in this cause are to be immediately removed," the judge wrote, granting the motion for an emergency order for protection filed by the defense.

WFLA-Ch. 8 obtained statements by the four juvenile defendants who are charged as adults with multiple counts of sexual battery against a flag football teammate. The station posted a story online that remained on its Web site tbo.com for approximately an hour.

More than a dozen people commented on the story before Battles issued his order and the television station removed the article.